# TestBash Revisited: Exploratory Testing with the Team, a Journey Worth Taking

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**Tags:** exploratory-testing, collaboration, exploratory-testing-week\
**Created:** [30 April 2021 07:00 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testbash-revisited-exploratory-testing-with-the-team-a-journey-worth-taking/49583 "2021-04-30T07:00:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [30 April 2021 07:00 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testbash-revisited-exploratory-testing-with-the-team-a-journey-worth-taking/49583/1 "2021-04-30T07:00:33Z")

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In our final TestBash revisited of Exploratory Testing week, @mwinteringham will be joined by @maaike.brinkhof to revisit Maaike’s TestBash Brighton Essentials 2019 talk - [Exploratory Testing with the Team, a Journey Worth Taking](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/exploratory-testing-with-the-team-a-journey-worth-taking-with-maaike-brinkhof?s_id=7543847).

If you’d like to continue the discussion from the session, or you thought of more questions you’d like to ask after the session, add it all to this thread 😁

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**Author:** ![heather\_reid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/heather_reid/32/29_2.png) [@heather\_reid](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/heather_reid)\
**Post date:** [30 April 2021 15:47 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testbash-revisited-exploratory-testing-with-the-team-a-journey-worth-taking/49583/2 "2021-04-30T15:47:10Z")

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Links from the chat:

Maaike’s Testers’ Island Disc [Testers' Island Discs Ep19 - Maaike Brinkhof | MoT](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/testers-island-discs-ep19-maaike-brinkhof)

Paul’s [Testers' Island Discs Ep 3 - Paul Grizzaffi | MoT](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/series/testers-island-discs-podcast/lessons/testers-island-discs-ep-3-paul-grizzaffi)

Maaike was part of a recent discussion with Elizabeth zagrobe and Jitesh Gosai on critical thinking - very closely tied to ET [Discussion: Critical Thinking | MoT](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/discussion-critical-thinking?s_id=7641625)

Explore It book

> **[Explore It!: Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing:...](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Explore-Increase-Confidence-Exploratory-Testing/dp/1937785025)**
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> Buy Explore It!: Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing 1 by Elisabeth Hendrickson (ISBN: 9781937785024) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

> **[Principles - Context Driven Testing](https://context-driven-testing.com/)**
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> The Seven Basic Principles of the Context-Driven School of Software Testing

If folks are wondering what Charters are: [99 Second Introduction to Charters | MoT](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/series/99-second-introductions-from-software-testing-clinic/lessons/99-second-introduction-to-charters)

This article has lots of info to help you understand how to implement heuristics [Software Testing Heuristics: Mind The Gap! | MoT](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/software-testing-heuristics-mind-the-gap?s_id=7641730)

Maaike has a great course on Cognitive Biases [Cognitive Biases In Software Testing | MoT](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/courses/cognitive-biases-in-software-testing?s_id=7641854)

Maaike on Twitter [https://twitter.com/Maaikees](https://twitter.com/Maaikees)

> <https://twitter.com/FriendlyTester/status/920759281317793792>

the github mentioned [GitHub - Maaikees/exploratory-testing: Resources for your Exploratory Testing with the Team journey](https://github.com/Maaikees/exploratory-testing)

Katrina Clokie did a great TestBash talk on pairing [A Pairing Experiment – Katrina Clokie | MoT](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/a-pairing-experiment-katrina-clokie?s_id=7642046)

Keith’s talk [How to Talk to a CIO About Software Testing (If You Really Have | MoT](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/how-to-talk-to-a-cio-about-software-testing-if-you-really-have-to-keith-klain?s_id=7642069)

Maaret [https://twitter.com/maaretp](https://twitter.com/maaretp)

Elisabeth [https://twitter.com/testobsessed](https://twitter.com/testobsessed)

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**Post date:** [1 May 2021 09:08 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testbash-revisited-exploratory-testing-with-the-team-a-journey-worth-taking/49583/3 "2021-05-01T09:08:23Z")

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I’ll be here if there’s any left over questions, remarks, what have you…
